Reece &nbspWanahi

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Full Name

Reece Te Ora Wanahi

Background

Mr Wanahi is 17 years old. On 18 June 2007 he was sentenced on a total of 15 offences, which can be put into three groups. The first group comprised five offences for which Mr Wanahi was originally sentenced on 29 November 2006. At the time of the offending he was 16 years old. The original sentencing resulted in his receiving 110 hours’ community work in relation to the following charges:
• Unlawfully taking a motor vehicle;
• Escaping custody;
• Burglary; and
• Two wilful damage charges.
This group of charges came again before the District Court at Hamilton on 18 June 2007 by way of an application to cancel the sentence of community work because of Mr Wanahi’s failure to report or do any community work. An alternative sentence was sought. The learned Judge imposed an alternative sentence of one year’s imprisonment on the burglary charges, and convicted and discharged Mr Wanahi on the other charges in this group.

The second group of charges related to activities in early 2007 when Mr Wanahi was 17 years old. These were:
• Three charges of burglary;
• Unlawfully taking a motor vehicle;
• Disorderly behaviour; and
• Breach of bail.

On these charges Mr Wanahi was sentenced on 18 June 2007 to one-and-a-half years’ imprisonment, that imprisonment being cumulative upon the one-year sentence.

The third group of charges arose from four incidents that occurred while Mr Wanahi was in prison on remand, being:
• Three charges of wilful damage; and
• Common assault.
He was sentenced on 18 June 2007 to a further cumulative six weeks’ imprisonment on these charges. The sum of the total sentences was therefore two years and seven-and-a-half months’ imprisonment.